Cecilia Vicuna, Sabor a Mi

Cullompton, Beau Geste Press, 1973. Softcover, 20 x 16 cm, 158 pp. Printed in mimeograph and offset with collages and rubber stamps. Edition of 250 in English and Spanish.

This first book published by the influential Chilean artist and poet (1947) responded to the violence and censorship unleashed by the military coup in Chile in 1973. Sabor a mi is composed of found objects, diary prose, erotic poems and reproductions of earlier paintings along with newspaper clippings and artistic denunciations of the situation in Chile. Each copy is different, this one contains a dried flower and deep brown dyed sheets. Small bend at top right corner, else a very good copy of this pivotal publication.